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Newtown House — NEWTOWN (ARDAGH BY.)

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Newtown House — NEWTOWN (ARDAGH BY.)
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having single-bay single-storey extension/entrance porch to the centre of the rear (west) elevation. Hipped natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and a central pair of rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut tooled limestone sills and diminishing timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three to first floor openings and six-over-six to ground floor openings. Central segmental-headed door opening to main elevation (east) having double leaf timber battened doors with spoked fanlight over, and with cut limestone plinth blocks and cut limestone threshold. Set back from road in mature grounds to the east of Legan. Complex of outbuildings (13402407) adjacent to the north. Main entrance gateway to the south comprising a pair of cut limestone gate posts (on octagonal-plan) having a pair of decorative cast-iron gates. Pedestrian cast-iron gate located to the west side of main vehicular gates. Rubble limestone walls to site, moulded limestone gate posts to rear (west).

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